Trump's Response to Indictment: Lies and Victim Narratives in Bedminster Speech

Former President Donald Trump gave a speech at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, where he presented alternate histories, legal disinformation, and false claims of political victimization to craft a narrative that he seemed to believe his followers will accept as fact. Trump argued that he’s subject to a nefarious double standard given that his political opponents have never faced charges in connection to retaining documents from their public service. Trump appears to believe that he can replicate that strategy of lies and obfuscation when it comes to defending himself in the court of public opinion while the federal criminal case against him proceeds.